Faye Linda Wachs
Biographic Data
| ID | 288012 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Faye Linda Wachs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Faye Linda |
| FAMILY NAME | Wachs |
| SIGNATURE | WACHS F L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3081-0998 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 168 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Recuperative Wokeness
Faced with the increasingly politicized nature of sport and the need for resource accumulation under neoliberal capitalism, brands employ political stances to connect with consumers and expand customer bases. The ubiquity of social media in the present moment offers a unique opportunity to analyze corporate messaging and also audience response. Seven hundred and fifty YouTube comments from three Nike ads were coded. Overall commenters responded p…
Women and Fitness in American Culture
Stereotype Threat Among Girls
Effects of stereotype threat on math performance have been well-documented among college women; however, the prevalence among adolescent girls is less well-known. Further, the moderating role of gender identity and effects of stereotype threat on high achieving girls in math is unknown. This study tested the effects of a stereotype threat condition (vs. control group) among middle school girls in standard and honors math classes and examined gend…
Explaining the Failure of an Obesity Intervention
This paper explains the failure of an obesity intervention funded by a Carol M. White U.S. Department of Education grant which created a three way partnership between middle schools in a poor largely Latino school district, the local University, and local after-school care providers. This paper assesses the project and situates it theoretically using Foucault’s microphysics of power and Bourdieu’s concepts of capital to analyze the refusal of mos…
Media Frames and Displacement of Blame in the Don Imus/Rutgers Women's Basketball Team Incident
Shock jock radio by its very nature involves the creation of spectacle through outrageous utterances that simultaneously reinforce and resist dominant norms (Nylund, 2007). Self-proclaimed media “bad boy” Don Imus referred to the Rutgers University Scarlett Knights, National Collegiate Athletic Association (N.C.A.A.) women's basketball championship runner-ups as “nappy headed hos” during an April 4, 2007, broadcast of his “Imus in the Morning” ra…
It’s Not About the Game
Using intersectionality and hegemony theory, we critically analyze mainstream print news media’s response to Don Imus’ exchange on the 2007 NCAA women’s basketball championship game. Content and textual analysis reveals the following media frames: “invisibility and silence”; “controlling images versus women’s self-definitions”; and, “outside the frame: social issues in sport and society.” The paper situates these media frames within a broader soc…
Consumption and the Body
The relationship between the body and material culture in the post‐industrial world is defined through consumption. How one experiences the body, manages corporeal identity, participates in social rituals as an embodied subject is, to a great extent, commodified. Changes in perspectives on the body are intertwined with the advent of consumer culture and the concomitant development of mass media and advertising. The growth of production during the…
Surviving the Tsunami
The Boundaries of Difference
There is a pervasive belief that meaningful gender differences structure the abilities and desires of bodies. These gender differences are presented as categorical imperatives, despite the prevalence of a range of abilities and desires across genders. How are beliefs about gender differences maintained in light of increasing challenges? Adult recreational sports provide an interesting subworld in which to investigate this question. Through an eth…
Getting your Body Back
This investigation explores how contemporary (corporeal) motherhood is constituted in postindustrial consumer culture through a content and textual analysis of Shape Fit Pregnancy. Using all available issues of the magazine from its inception in 1997 to 2003, the authors first underscore a key tension surrounding pregnant women's bodies within health and fitness discourse: That the pregnant form is presented as maternally successful yet aesthetic…
Leveling the Playing Field
At the turn of the millennium, gender relations are in a state of flux. Increasingly, separate gendered spheres and roles are being challenged and negotiated in many areas of social life. At the same time, many gendered ideologies are also reproduced, continuing longstanding inequities. Recreational sporting subworlds provide a context to explore how gendered rule structures contribute to and redress such inequities. Coed softball provides an exa…
Audio-Visual Review
Disciplining the Body”
This paper analyzes how mainstream print media polices sexuality through framings of HIV-positive male athletes. We analyze the HIV-positive announcements of Magic Johnson, Greg Louganis, and Tommy Morrison. Specifically, we discuss differences between the framing of gay men (Louganis) and self-identified heterosexual men (Johnson and Morrison). First, there is an extensive search for the ways Magic Johnson and Tommy Morrison contracted HIV/AIDS.…
There's No Such Thing as a Gay Hero
In comparing print media coverage of the Greg Louganis and Magic Johnson HIV-positive / AIDS announcements, there is strikingly different treatment of the two men. Specifically, the authors determined whether the athlete is framed as a hero, victim, or carrier with regard to his HIV-positive status. Johnson is unequivocally framed as a hero in the vast majority of articles. By contrast, Louganis almost never is framed solely as a hero and often i…
The Gender of Audience Building
This article, based upon a comparative analysis of televised coverage of the “Final Four” of the women's and men's 1993 NCAA basketball tournaments, sheds light on some of the mechanisms through which an “audience preference” is socially constructed for men's sports over women's sports. First, we examine the temporal framing of the women's and men's tournaments by the sports/media complex. Next, we present a comparative description of the visual …
It’s Not About the Game
Using intersectionality and hegemony theory, we critically analyze mainstream print news media’s response to Don Imus’ exchange on the 2007 NCAA women’s basketball championship game. Content and textual analysis reveals the following media frames: “invisibility and silence”; “controlling images versus women’s self-definitions”; and, “outside the frame: social issues in sport and society.” The paper situates these media frames within a broader soc…
Getting your Body Back
This investigation explores how contemporary (corporeal) motherhood is constituted in postindustrial consumer culture through a content and textual analysis of Shape Fit Pregnancy. Using all available issues of the magazine from its inception in 1997 to 2003, the authors first underscore a key tension surrounding pregnant women's bodies within health and fitness discourse: That the pregnant form is presented as maternally successful yet aesthetic…
The Gender of Audience Building
This article, based upon a comparative analysis of televised coverage of the “Final Four” of the women's and men's 1993 NCAA basketball tournaments, sheds light on some of the mechanisms through which an “audience preference” is socially constructed for men's sports over women's sports. First, we examine the temporal framing of the women's and men's tournaments by the sports/media complex. Next, we present a comparative description of the visual …
Disciplining the Body”
This paper analyzes how mainstream print media polices sexuality through framings of HIV-positive male athletes. We analyze the HIV-positive announcements of Magic Johnson, Greg Louganis, and Tommy Morrison. Specifically, we discuss differences between the framing of gay men (Louganis) and self-identified heterosexual men (Johnson and Morrison). First, there is an extensive search for the ways Magic Johnson and Tommy Morrison contracted HIV/AIDS.…
Leveling the Playing Field
At the turn of the millennium, gender relations are in a state of flux. Increasingly, separate gendered spheres and roles are being challenged and negotiated in many areas of social life. At the same time, many gendered ideologies are also reproduced, continuing longstanding inequities. Recreational sporting subworlds provide a context to explore how gendered rule structures contribute to and redress such inequities. Coed softball provides an exa…
There's No Such Thing as a Gay Hero
In comparing print media coverage of the Greg Louganis and Magic Johnson HIV-positive / AIDS announcements, there is strikingly different treatment of the two men. Specifically, the authors determined whether the athlete is framed as a hero, victim, or carrier with regard to his HIV-positive status. Johnson is unequivocally framed as a hero in the vast majority of articles. By contrast, Louganis almost never is framed solely as a hero and often i…
Explaining the Failure of an Obesity Intervention
This paper explains the failure of an obesity intervention funded by a Carol M. White U.S. Department of Education grant which created a three way partnership between middle schools in a poor largely Latino school district, the local University, and local after-school care providers. This paper assesses the project and situates it theoretically using Foucault’s microphysics of power and Bourdieu’s concepts of capital to analyze the refusal of mos…
Stereotype Threat Among Girls
Effects of stereotype threat on math performance have been well-documented among college women; however, the prevalence among adolescent girls is less well-known. Further, the moderating role of gender identity and effects of stereotype threat on high achieving girls in math is unknown. This study tested the effects of a stereotype threat condition (vs. control group) among middle school girls in standard and honors math classes and examined gend…
Media Frames and Displacement of Blame in the Don Imus/Rutgers Women's Basketball Team Incident
Shock jock radio by its very nature involves the creation of spectacle through outrageous utterances that simultaneously reinforce and resist dominant norms (Nylund, 2007). Self-proclaimed media “bad boy” Don Imus referred to the Rutgers University Scarlett Knights, National Collegiate Athletic Association (N.C.A.A.) women's basketball championship runner-ups as “nappy headed hos” during an April 4, 2007, broadcast of his “Imus in the Morning” ra…
The Boundaries of Difference
There is a pervasive belief that meaningful gender differences structure the abilities and desires of bodies. These gender differences are presented as categorical imperatives, despite the prevalence of a range of abilities and desires across genders. How are beliefs about gender differences maintained in light of increasing challenges? Adult recreational sports provide an interesting subworld in which to investigate this question. Through an eth…
The Gender of Audience Building
This article, based upon a comparative analysis of televised coverage of the “Final Four” of the women's and men's 1993 NCAA basketball tournaments, sheds light on some of the mechanisms through which an “audience preference” is socially constructed for men's sports over women's sports. First, we examine the temporal framing of the women's and men's tournaments by the sports/media complex. Next, we present a comparative description of the visual …
There's No Such Thing as a Gay Hero
In comparing print media coverage of the Greg Louganis and Magic Johnson HIV-positive / AIDS announcements, there is strikingly different treatment of the two men. Specifically, the authors determined whether the athlete is framed as a hero, victim, or carrier with regard to his HIV-positive status. Johnson is unequivocally framed as a hero in the vast majority of articles. By contrast, Louganis almost never is framed solely as a hero and often i…
Audio-Visual Review
Disciplining the Body”
This paper analyzes how mainstream print media polices sexuality through framings of HIV-positive male athletes. We analyze the HIV-positive announcements of Magic Johnson, Greg Louganis, and Tommy Morrison. Specifically, we discuss differences between the framing of gay men (Louganis) and self-identified heterosexual men (Johnson and Morrison). First, there is an extensive search for the ways Magic Johnson and Tommy Morrison contracted HIV/AIDS.…
Leveling the Playing Field
At the turn of the millennium, gender relations are in a state of flux. Increasingly, separate gendered spheres and roles are being challenged and negotiated in many areas of social life. At the same time, many gendered ideologies are also reproduced, continuing longstanding inequities. Recreational sporting subworlds provide a context to explore how gendered rule structures contribute to and redress such inequities. Coed softball provides an exa…
Getting your Body Back
This investigation explores how contemporary (corporeal) motherhood is constituted in postindustrial consumer culture through a content and textual analysis of Shape Fit Pregnancy. Using all available issues of the magazine from its inception in 1997 to 2003, the authors first underscore a key tension surrounding pregnant women's bodies within health and fitness discourse: That the pregnant form is presented as maternally successful yet aesthetic…
Surviving the Tsunami
The Boundaries of Difference
There is a pervasive belief that meaningful gender differences structure the abilities and desires of bodies. These gender differences are presented as categorical imperatives, despite the prevalence of a range of abilities and desires across genders. How are beliefs about gender differences maintained in light of increasing challenges? Adult recreational sports provide an interesting subworld in which to investigate this question. Through an eth…
Consumption and the Body
The relationship between the body and material culture in the post‐industrial world is defined through consumption. How one experiences the body, manages corporeal identity, participates in social rituals as an embodied subject is, to a great extent, commodified. Changes in perspectives on the body are intertwined with the advent of consumer culture and the concomitant development of mass media and advertising. The growth of production during the…
It’s Not About the Game
Using intersectionality and hegemony theory, we critically analyze mainstream print news media’s response to Don Imus’ exchange on the 2007 NCAA women’s basketball championship game. Content and textual analysis reveals the following media frames: “invisibility and silence”; “controlling images versus women’s self-definitions”; and, “outside the frame: social issues in sport and society.” The paper situates these media frames within a broader soc…
Media Frames and Displacement of Blame in the Don Imus/Rutgers Women's Basketball Team Incident
Shock jock radio by its very nature involves the creation of spectacle through outrageous utterances that simultaneously reinforce and resist dominant norms (Nylund, 2007). Self-proclaimed media “bad boy” Don Imus referred to the Rutgers University Scarlett Knights, National Collegiate Athletic Association (N.C.A.A.) women's basketball championship runner-ups as “nappy headed hos” during an April 4, 2007, broadcast of his “Imus in the Morning” ra…
Explaining the Failure of an Obesity Intervention
This paper explains the failure of an obesity intervention funded by a Carol M. White U.S. Department of Education grant which created a three way partnership between middle schools in a poor largely Latino school district, the local University, and local after-school care providers. This paper assesses the project and situates it theoretically using Foucault’s microphysics of power and Bourdieu’s concepts of capital to analyze the refusal of mos…
Stereotype Threat Among Girls
Effects of stereotype threat on math performance have been well-documented among college women; however, the prevalence among adolescent girls is less well-known. Further, the moderating role of gender identity and effects of stereotype threat on high achieving girls in math is unknown. This study tested the effects of a stereotype threat condition (vs. control group) among middle school girls in standard and honors math classes and examined gend…
Women and Fitness in American Culture
Recuperative Wokeness
Faced with the increasingly politicized nature of sport and the need for resource accumulation under neoliberal capitalism, brands employ political stances to connect with consumers and expand customer bases. The ubiquity of social media in the present moment offers a unique opportunity to analyze corporate messaging and also audience response. Seven hundred and fifty YouTube comments from three Nike ads were coded. Overall commenters responded p…
Sociology (13 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works)